Benjamin Northcutt was fired back in 2010 when he was accused of stealing $8,000 of drug money from the station. Now that he has been acquitted, his attorney plans to file a wrongful termination suit by the end of next week.

“It’s been a four-year journey and obviously when you take something like a police officer and you impune his integrity like that, that's the most important thing to him,” Northcutt’s attorney Scott Adams told KOCO 5.

It took a jury only 30 minutes to clear a cloud of suspicion looming over former officer Northcutt for four years.

“Ben was scorned here in Oklahoma City and Edmond. He felt like everyone was just staring at him,” shared Adams. The scrutiny was too much. He left his lifelong home in Oklahoma and moved to Texas. Adams says he was unfairly targeted by his own department.

“There clearly was some ulterior motive going on here. I don’t know why they picked Ben out of everybody that was there that night, There were 16 officers that had access to this particular room,” explained Adams. Adams says the not guilty verdict is not enough.

“Although he was acquitted, that will follow him forever, he will always have to explain it,” said Adams.

To make up for years of suffering, Northcutt wants more than $1 million, including $300,000 in back pay.

The officer who served Edmond for seven years wants his job back so he can regain the good name taken from him.

KOCO reached out to the police department to find out if they plan to rehire Northcutt they refereed us to the city attorney.